Video: Ted Cruz Says Children Should Be Spanked

“You suck”
Politics • Views: 47,350

[This video has been deleted from YouTube…]

Here’s Ted Cruz at a speech in La Porte, Indiana, last weekend, responding to a young boy who shouts “you suck!” by saying the child should be spanked — like he does to children in his household.

“Thank you son. You know, I appreciate you sharing your views. You know, one of the things that hopefully someone has told you is that children should actually speak with respect. Imagine what a different world it would be if someone told Donald Trump that years ago. You know, in my household when a child behaves that way, they get a spanking.”

[Cheers from audience.]

Of course they cheered for Cruz advocating corporal punishment for children. These are Republicans.

UPDATE at 5/2/16 11:27:07 am by Charles Johnson

By the way, check out how the Daily Caller’s article on this (linked above) attempts to clean up what Cruz said by putting it in the past tense as if he were talking about when he was a child.

“Imagine what a different world it would be if someone told Donald Trump that years ago. In my household, when a child behaved that way, they’d get a spanking.

Jump to top

Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT
LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds

Help support Little Green Footballs!

Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled.

Donate with
PayPal
Cash.app
Recent PagesClick to refresh
Detroit Local Powers First EV Charging Road in North America The road, about a mile from Local 58's hall, uses rubber-coated copper inductive-charging coils buried under the asphalt that transfer power to a receiver pad attached to a car's underbelly, much like how a phone can be charged wirelessly. ...
Backwoods Sleuth
3 days ago
Views: 187 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 4